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Modern Persian sounds from the Naqash Duo, a Kurdish lament from Aynur and Kayhan Kalhor and co, songs from Liz Stringer and Jordie Lane and a Strayhorn classic by the Michelle Nicolle Quartet and by Duke Ellington. We'll als… More

The brother of a 14-year-old boy who says he was forcibly stripped and isolated for long periods, is asking why no charges have been laid by the Northern Territory police since more details about alleged abuse in Don Dale det… More

Professor Angela Davis is a leading intellect on the prison system in the US, as well as an icon of the black liberation movement. In the 1970s she was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives. She spoke with RN Drive about how… More

One of the deadliest conflicts of 2016 has been the Syrian civil war, where hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and many more Syrians made homeless, creating the world's worst refugee crisis. Five years on from whe… More

'Hawniyaz' features deep, expansive songs from a a super group of three Kurdish musicians including Kayhan Kalhor and Aynur and an Azerbaijani pianist. 'Narrante' is the ECM debut of Persian female instrumental duo Naqash. Th… More

2016 has delivered some immense political shocks, raising the question just why are our politicians and institutions, and everything we once trusted, now so on the nose? To analyse this and to offer some expert forecast, Phil… More

NSW Premier Mike Baird has had to make his second backflip on a controversial policy in as many months. First it was the ban on greyhound racing, now he's relaxing the state's divisive lock-out laws. More

There had been plans to hold a referendum next year, on the 50th anniversary of the historic 1967 referendum, which brought indigenous Australians under federal law for the first time. But it's looking increasingly unlikely t… More

Details of the long-awaited report by Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel into the national energy market have been made public. In a leaked copy of the report, Dr Finkel warns Australia will not meet its emissions reduction targe… More

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How can politics be set free from the deadly polarity between empty theatrics and corrupt, complacent plutocracy. What will it take to reacquaint people with control over their communities, shared and realistic values, patience with difference and confidence in their capacity for intelligent negotiation? It's the opposite of what Trump has appealed to. The question is whether the appalling clarity of this opposition can wake us up to work harder for the authentic and humane politics that seems in such short supply.

Writers reflected upon how he was changing the language. He defined the world as a source of endless threat and other countries as cradles of countless enemies. Global conspiracies were supposedly directed at his country and its uniquely righteous people. His left-wing opponents and the national minorities, he insisted, were not individuals but expressions of implacable international enmity to the righteous demands of his own people. He said that he spoke for his people, that he was their voice. He had no concern for factuality; what he said about others was meant to generate a certain fiction.

I'm with Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hannah Arendt, Rousseau, Montesquieu. I believe it's a higher mode of being to participate in your own self-government ... We all seek a sense of what it would be like to be fully connected to something. We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there's a level of life that's rare to attain. And whether we attain that or not can be a source of deep satisfaction or shame to us.

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